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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'' is the third novel in the Girl Genius series, adapted from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomic. Following the dramatic events of the previous two books, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which is in poor condition following a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of course, in the world of Girl Genius, nothing is straightforward and AgathaAll Tomorrow's mission is complicated by several thingsFutures: the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain Fictions that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Greg Keyes|title=Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth is dying – dust storms are ravaging the world and blight killing off all useful crops, meaning farmers are vital to keep the few people to have survived recent wars fed, even if they need to go further and use less arable lands to do so. Cooper is one such man, despite a history in a completely different career; he lives with the father of his deceased wife Benjamin Greenaway and their two children in amongst the corn. But when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in the bedroom that was his wife's as a young girl and is now their daughter's, a most unlikely chain of events leads him to find clues that could revive his past – that in fact of a highly trained astronaut, with the one last potential mission – that of a shortcut to the stars in the trails of prior manned probes to detect new habitable planets for what's left of mankind…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783293691</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Baxter|title=Ultima|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In ''Proxima'', alien hatches were discovered across the galaxy, hatches that when opened caused completely unimaginable events to occur - amongst many strange happenings, one character suddenly had a twin she didn't have previously , and one hatch led to a different earth, where the Roman Empire never died. It is there that ''Ultima'' begins - on a world where the Roman Empire never fell, and the technology and culture is markedly different as a result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575116870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gavin Deas |title=Empires: Infiltration|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=When is a book, not a book? When it is an experiment of course! Empires: Infiltration is one part of a two book series that explores the same story from differing points of view. I started reading the other half, [[Empires: Extraction by Gavin Deas|Empires: Extraction]], first, but can now fill in some of the narrative gaps as I start again. This time we view an alien threat by the race known as The Pleasure, through the eyes of Corporal Noel Barnes. By book’s end, will I have an appreciation of this daring literary experiment, or will I conclude that narrative has been the same for hundreds of years for a reason?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057512928X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Richards|title=The Blood Red City Oram (Never War 2Editors)

|summary=Unbeknown to most ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the world who have their eyes on the unfolding events shape of World War II, the alien Vril continue their invasionthings to come. There are those among the allies who know that the conflict has taken an other-worldly turn. For instance British Intelligence's Guy Pentecross continues to do what he can along with Sarah Diamond who is now SOE trained so can handle herself, thank you very much! While the Vril continue to seep into the consciousness of those they find useful, they seem to have turned their attention to some ancient archaeological artefacts. Will our heroes understand the significance before it's too late? Oh and are you afraid of cats? No? Give it a little while…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Gavin Deas |title=Empires: Extraction|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=I will take 've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my hat off lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to any author or authors who partake me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of experimental fiction; trying to do something a little differently to push new groundit is - frankly - quite frightening. HoweverOf course, I will jam that hat right back onto my head if said book forgoes could research the possibilities and the basic need to entertain in preference of being something probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'Meaningfulm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Gavin Deas, I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a combination of authors Gavin Smith and Stephen Deas, have tried to do something different, but does it work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057512900X</amazonuk>way I could understand.

 {{newreview|title=The Book of Strange New ThingsFrontpage|author=Michel FaberSylvie Cathrall|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summarytitle=In ''Under the Skin'', Michel Faber fused ordinary, contemporary surroundings with an element of science fiction A Letter to spectacular success. He's repeated the trick in The Book of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely sci-fi conceit with the crushingly familiar to impressive effect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Descent|author=Ken MacLeodLuminous Deep

|summary=In the relatively near future, two schoolboys climb a hill near their small Scottish town. They encounter some sort of craft, that emits a white light and knocks the boys out for several hours. It's only later that one of the boys, Ryan, realises he was abducted by Aliens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive Edition|author=Douglas Adams|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=There are few series that have garnered such greater joys than a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide book which lives up to the Galaxy'a compelling premise. Whether the fans have come from the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhere. Ask a room of people what the meaning And this is one of life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answerthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=SparkThe Unravelling|author=John Twelve HawksWill Gibson

|summary=Jacob Underwood It's 2038 and Joe is deada bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. At least, he thinks he isJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Suffering But then something goes horribly wrong with the after effects of a traumatic accidentAI system that now runs everything, Jacob believes he is deadmaking life easier for many, just a spark existing inside a bodyand riots start to spread. Finally, but unable Joe gets to fully interact with anything around himdo some real policing. Emotionally detached In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and living in a shadowy, silent world, Jacob Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned only one trying to himsave Suki - Dylan, Jacob must prepare himself - a British superfan and his journey will change both his selftech nerd, and how he sees is also on the world around himcase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Alert: if you havenRonan't read s not entirely sure why he decides to go to the first two Tesla books, this contains spoilersparty but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. So if you'd And it seems like a good opportunity to come back once you've read them?Sebastian and his friends finally get out of his room and away from the Hive but did online activities he makes a living at. So he do it in the right makes his way or has he caused a chain reaction that will destroy there, dodging the world? Seb and Melanie don't have too much time to reason buses that out though as they travel across Australia to continue make up most of the war against the cyborgs traffic and watching the mysterious Irislocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one of the most dangerous foes with him, they'd reconsider the passenger list?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hive ConstructK P O'Donnell|authortitle=Alexander MaskillThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=New Cairo VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appearedUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, seemingly from nowherethe world ended, affecting a large percentage consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of the population and indiscriminately shutting down their ''bio augs'';artificial limbs Drexel and organsRenada. Until the virus can be containedOver half-a-century later, no one civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is allowed determined to leave the citycontinue her father's legacy, building a decision that does not go world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down well with those as yet unaffected and keen to remain that wayagain. Despite the quarantineCraig Anderson, someone is actually trying to break INTO the city; leader of a gifted hacker group of salvagers called Zala Ulora who plans to destroy the virus Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the hope that the resulting gratitude of the authorities will clear her criminal record. The city is a dangerous place to beslightest, howeverand no errant machine, as a rising mass of rebels seek to break free from quarantine no savage human tribe and the source of the spreading virus seems untraceable.not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lock InEmily Tesh|authortitle=John ScalziSome Desperate Glory

|summary=The Hayden disease started off looking like the common flu''While Earth's children live, but when people fell into comas and did not come out again we realised this was something very different. Twenty years later and society has moved on, with millions of Americans locked into their bodies a new culture has developed; one of coma patients being able to control androids or other people. So when a murder happens is it the body, or the mind that inhabits the body that is at fault? It is up to FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</amazonuk>}}enemy shall fear us''

{{newreview|title=Replica|author=Jack Heath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionFollowing the destruction of the Earth, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replica'' is amongst a strange and compelling combination rare number of action, mysterysurvivors, thriller and science-fiction. Heath Kyr has even included a hint been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of a romance. There is something for everyone humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problemsworld that should have been hers. All her life, the text is easy-she has been conditioned to-readfall in line, immersive to fulfil her duty and unpretentiousensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AfterpartyM R Carey|authortitle=Daryl GregoryInfinity Gate

|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God for years, but in I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it'Afterpartys a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it' Daryl Gregory is taking s bad, it's often terrible. But the idea premise of smart drugs one step furtherInfinity Gate had me hooked. What happens if after a particularly bad trip you have an omnipresent God with you? Is A concept this intriguing felt like a sense of wellbeinghigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, or are you now just schizophrenic? In the near future people take drugs not only for their cures, but also their side effects and seeing deities may it'd be the worst side effect of allfantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreview|title=The Dark Between ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the Stars|author=Kevin J Anderson|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=From my experience Opera should be left to fans question of the art form, or BBC4identity and acceptance. However, there is one sort of opera that I will take notice of, the Space Opera – a term that encompasses science fiction on an epic scale eOf what it means to be human.g. Dune. Starting an all-new Space Opera Of what is a daunting task for both reader real and writer. In ‘The Dark Between the Stars’what is artificial, Kevin J Anderson not only had to create new worlds full of interesting characters, but we and whether the reader have to get our head around all the concepts at once. Therefore, having the story told from the point development of view of up to twenty different people technology is probably not the wisest thing to doexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Koko Takes a Holiday22 Ideas About The Future|author=Kieran SheaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=Pulp science fiction is not as easy a genre to carry off as you may think; it takes ''Our future will be more complex than just a voluptuous catsuit-wearing alien firing off laser cannons (but that can only help)we expected. Pulp is often just that; pulp. It should be shredded Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and used automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to soak up the juices in landfill, but when it is done right, it can be excellent. When someone writes a book that is darkly funny, intelligent and a little ultraviolent, you may just have the perfect mix. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran Sheatrack grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Theatre I've got a couple of the Gods|author=M Suddain|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=M Francisco Fabrigas – unfortunate Arsenal FC connection aside – is worthy of your attentionconfessions to make. For I'm not only has he proven keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to be one of the longer-lasting humans in this universe, he has also been in other universesbook. And at the same, other universeThere's Fabrigasgot to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's have come to visit us – or is science fiction: far too often it 's the other way round? technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. Either way, he has been engaged in an epic adventure where he ends up on a moon full of toxic plants, and inside dread behemoths, It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and fought to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worse, all in the company of two unfortunate young people – a vicious and caring deaf lad who is more or less a kung-fu-powered computer chip, and a caring but blind young female saviourworld scape are purely incidental. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer So, what did I think of them, but more universes? This a book is the much-sought-after, long-lost, often-censored account of his derringtwenty-dotwo science fiction short stories? Well, as close to being from the horse's mouth as is possible, and with the sheer complexity of the circumstances and contrivances on every page, we should be gratefulI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever WatchMark Lingane|authortitle=David RamirezGalaxy

|summary=Great science fiction Spark, who is made up of many partsan elite pilot with the Space Academy, but three things are vital for barely makes it to become through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a classic; world buildingcoma that lasted years, story he remembers little and characteris in no physical shape to resume his duties. If one of these three elements But Earth is slightly below the others, a great novel can be punishedunder threat and he must. In ‘The Forever Watch’ Returned by Daniel Ramirez we have a fantastic world in his superiors to the form of the spaceship Noahspace station, he finds himself amid a great character in last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the form of Hanaalien threats against it, but does the story quite match up to the rest?also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforTade Thompson|title=LagoonFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=Three people walk along Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a Lagos beach as babysitter for the world changesship's AI captain. Adaora is strolling However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to clear find dozens of her head passengers butchered and try the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to understand why realise that her husband hit her earlier tonightfirst mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Rap artist Anthony (known Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to his parents as Edgar) is having a post-gig wanderdiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. The thirdMeanwhile, Aguformer astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, is covered half-alien daughter in blood. The fact that he's on tow, to see why the beach is immaterial; he just needs help. Then it happens. A boomRagtime has gone quiet, a bat falls stunned from leaving behind the sky politicking and then nothing is bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the same again. The strangers' futures all become one and five of them discover on the creature arrives; Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the creature they call Ayodele.entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning DarkClaire North|authortitle=Adam ChristopherNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=In spaceAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, no one can hear you scream interrogations and for night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the skeleton crew best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of the Ua new and timely genre, cli-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they dofi, or climate change fiction. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start early retirementanew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, but he is given one last job overseeing the dismantling weapons of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiationmass destruction, intensive farming). With only There is a couple of hundred people left on growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the massive stationBrotherhood, it is pretty quiet. This makes it easier aims to hear master these processes no matter the things going bump in cost to the night – a night that continues 24 hoursEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ex-PurgatoryAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=Peter ClinesShards of Earth|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A book in Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful emoon-sized aliens known as the Architects.gHumanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. a dream Then, just when they had the human race on top the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of a visionthe war fades, heroes are forgotten, set in a future alternative worldand humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Juggling all these concepts and creating Idris Telemmier, a novel that is entertaining man genetically engineered to try and at least in some way believable is communicate with the Architects, does not easywant to be remembered. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Ex-Purgatory''But, when he and the fourth outing in crew of the Ex seriessalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. Our heroes are used As he and his allies bounce from star system to being surrounded star system, chased by the undeadalien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, but at he slowly begins to realise that the start of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What real war is a dream and what is a reality?only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerTerry Miles|authortitle=Jim C HinesRabbits

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that novels should be about emotionsthe game, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also for while it ought to be funcapitalised to high heaven, entertaining and laser pistolsit never leaves lower case throughout this book. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is 's also called Rabbits, although only as a book that follows Isaac Vainioslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, a Libriomancer who it has the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one dayno official title, no official source, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguingno hard and fast structure, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun and to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book for youaverage person no obvious entry point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All A bit like the game of humankind is living on a single trainlife then. Oh sorryYes, as this is the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on game of life for a certain tribe of people – the same tracks as fan of the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a trainconspiracy, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earthcomputer game, waiting for the time hack from the world was inhabitable once moredarkest of webs. But the high tech on boardPeople like our hero, complete with lemon farmsK, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and differing qualities his bezzies are trying to be historians of virtual holidays depending on cost the game, and class have studied amongst many things the most unique of customerhigh score boards, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact for the sole aspect lists of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|who has successfully won the first book]] – religion. Some people game are fearing in the end timemost peculiar places, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercerand are still very short. Some believe theyHowever this time it're duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecrafts different. Some people know something else – This time the rare few explorers who get to go outside game seems the train into most dangerous, nay lethal, the world beyond, most broken it's ever been – morally and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Tesla 1|rating=4otherwise.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his mother is just... well... lost. The only thing he has he has Unfortunately for K, in trying to remember his mother by sort out what the game is a note telling him to go to the mysterious Steam Academy. Howeverdoing, first he has to find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriors. Whatif it's worseeven being played, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of yearsand how his loved ones might be kept safe, the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention and energy to killing Sebastian in particular. What's he done is only to deserve find out that? More to the pointline between observing and learning about the game, whatever he's doneand playing it, how can he survive?is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeC J Carey|authortitle=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteWidowland

|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=All It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of humankind is living on Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a single trainbit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. I For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know British commuters feel that way at timesit, but this is and we are now a much different circumstance protectorate – it is a train miles longwell, running non-stop we share enough of the same blood as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving the Germanic peoples on endlessly until, perhaps some time in ''the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itmainland''. It's But this is most certainly been going on long enough a different Britain, for it to have Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a culture – a hierarchical society caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the rich drudges, and leisured classes near the frontbeyond those, through right on down to the orgiastschildless, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to husbandless and the underclass at the endwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. It's all set And in its routinethis puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, set in motion. But there are two fishes is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of water it – a man after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from the rear who escapedBritish civilisation, and so they just get a middle-class woman working hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with civil rights campaignerstheir potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Everina Maxwell|title=GodWinter's War|author=Kameron HurleyOrbit|rating=35

|summary=People who do not like the genre love to lump all Science Fiction Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the same pile – massive space ships and stuffpast few years. That So when an important political alliance is just not the case. It can range from subtle alternative versions of our own Earth, to Space Sagas set around the orbit of a distant planet. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from be arranged – one that is when complex ideas are not explained clearly enough supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the readerrole. 'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocrypha' by Kameron Hurley is one such book; a novel crammed with some great ideas, but also moments Least of strange confusionall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Channel BlueRob Winters|authortitle=Jay MartelHis Name Was Wren|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=What if the planet you called home wasn’t just a random blob In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the universevillage of Hurstwick. It came down hard, orbiting a far off star. What if taking the spire of the things that happened on it weren’t entirely down to chance or fate or whatever you want to call village church with it. What if, actuallydestroying a stone shack, life on Earth was less random and moreleaving a wide trail through the wood, well, scheduled than you might like to admitbut no trace of what it actually was. Someone up there, calling German secret weapon was the shots, deciding when to send in ‘natural’ disasters, influencing how things work, people behave, countries are run. Not a God, mindlocal gossip, but something far crazier: there should have been an explosion and a television executive. Earth is the reality show to end all reality showscrater, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second there were neither of their lives is being watched and edited, that doesn’t stop them behaving in a way that keeps the viewers highly entertainedthose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Plastic JesusMark Lingane|authortitle=Wayne SimmonsNote to Self: An Education|rating=34

|summary=Johnny Lyon is In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a computer coding expert spiralling out cascade of control following medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the death side effect of erasing seven years of his lovermemory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon that he In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs Johnny for memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a project that distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is perfect for him (creating a virtual reality Jesus) and just might help him helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to concentrate on something other than his losshuman life. They embark on However, a project discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with potentially monumental impact within a world strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of degradation the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and violence in a city ruled over by organised crime king pin Paul McBriderag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. Many storylines collide The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the project effects Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more people players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than Johnny realises.she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersSeven Devils|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but Eris is one of the nature foremost operatives of the programme. It has gone from black and whiteNovantae, and cheaply produceda resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, and declared disposablewhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, to being an essential part of ace pilot for the BBCNovantae, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of wayshas a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. So with Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about ship are three Doctors, er, pressing defectors with a red button, we turn to other aspects of secret that could potentially cripple the birthday bonanzaEmpire. Such as this bookEris's brother Damocles, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short ethe runner-book novellas written by up heir to the blazing lights of YA writingEmpire, is plotting to a huge disrupt peace talks between Tholos and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set the last of coversthe free alien species.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of todayIt's top authors have come together a race against time as the rebels move to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual put a stop Damocles' plans, with this kind millions of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but lives hanging in the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerA Life Without End

|genre=AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=From HI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one.G Wells to ''Doctor Who' It won't be one of the major numbers, there is something about a good but the time-travel story that has when I have the power to ignite same number as Heinz varieties looms on the imagination in horizon. And then a way unique to few of the genrebig 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. Perhaps it is due to the fact (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that when dealing with 's the subject extent of time travelmy mid-life crisis, literally ''anything is possible'I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Well Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfatherthey end up with a child, which we know would cause an almighty paradox is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and probably destroy a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the universe.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|title=Parasite|author=Mira Grant|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Parasite'' is the first part of the Parasitology series and if the quality of this book is anything Move on to go by the next is going to be highly sought after. It puts us several years into the future, in a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward and where humans no longer take medication, suffer from allergies, or even catch the common cold. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen and the invention of their intestinal shield, which is a genetically engineered tapeworm designed to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]